2018-10-31, 11:26
Hi
I have a Late 2009 Macmini, Core2Duo with 4GB of RAM, running El Capitan (latest supported OS X version) which I mainly use for watching TV Series. I've been using VLC for a long time without any problems whatsoever, either windowed mode or full screen.
I've read a lot about this problem here on the forums and I keep on stumbling upon old topics that say that this will be fixed on later versions, or later OS updates, or even that this due to the lack of optimisation from ffmpeg.
I've tried to disable HW acceleration (VTB), as suggested, and it makes it better, but the video still stutters a bit, even non HD streams have regular, very very small but noticeable, stuttering, which doesn't happen on a Raspberry Pi at all.
What I'd like to understand, and I'm willing to help with anything I can of course, is why VLC doesn't have this problem and Kodi does ? Is this something we'd like to revisit to make it work again ? if this is a problem with initialising the fullscreen window, can't we peek the code from VLC and see what they do and if we can use it in the same way ? What do you think the problem is and what can be done to tackle it ?
Motivation: old MacMinis should be powerful enough to run Kodi, they're small, low noise, good looking and quite cheap nowadays, I believe that if Kodi works fine on these little things, many people would be happy and would repurpose their old MacMinis.
I have a Late 2009 Macmini, Core2Duo with 4GB of RAM, running El Capitan (latest supported OS X version) which I mainly use for watching TV Series. I've been using VLC for a long time without any problems whatsoever, either windowed mode or full screen.
I've read a lot about this problem here on the forums and I keep on stumbling upon old topics that say that this will be fixed on later versions, or later OS updates, or even that this due to the lack of optimisation from ffmpeg.
I've tried to disable HW acceleration (VTB), as suggested, and it makes it better, but the video still stutters a bit, even non HD streams have regular, very very small but noticeable, stuttering, which doesn't happen on a Raspberry Pi at all.
What I'd like to understand, and I'm willing to help with anything I can of course, is why VLC doesn't have this problem and Kodi does ? Is this something we'd like to revisit to make it work again ? if this is a problem with initialising the fullscreen window, can't we peek the code from VLC and see what they do and if we can use it in the same way ? What do you think the problem is and what can be done to tackle it ?
Motivation: old MacMinis should be powerful enough to run Kodi, they're small, low noise, good looking and quite cheap nowadays, I believe that if Kodi works fine on these little things, many people would be happy and would repurpose their old MacMinis.